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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 338 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 3-10 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Linden senior Kiki York, and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: Welcome Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland.
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  Speaker 2: Go Lines, Greetings, and welcome into the Walkam Preps podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is episode three hundred and thirty eight, a basketball
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  Speaker 2: state championship wrap up. I am Tyler Anderson of Walkham
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  Speaker 2: Preps and here we go. Uh wow, what a week.
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  Speaker 2: What a week it was in Yakama.
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  Speaker 1: It was crazy.
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  Speaker 2: There was amazing games in Spokane as well. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about each and every one of them. And
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  Speaker 2: I saw every single play in Yakama from tip off
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  Speaker 2: to the final buzzer, and the games in Spokane. I
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  Speaker 2: was able to watch those online and write stories about
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  Speaker 2: those as well, so we'll have a lot to talk
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  Speaker 2: about here. First, want to give a thank you to
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  Speaker 2: Lynden senior Keky York. Congratulations to her two time state
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  Speaker 2: champion and what a way to go out as a senior.
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  Speaker 2: As people have said, a generational talent when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to defending another team's best player, and she is just
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  Speaker 2: a phenomenal player, phenomenal athlete, person everything. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 2: see what she does in track and field here in
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  Speaker 2: the spring. But for now we get to talk about
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  Speaker 2: her one last time basketball wise, So thank you Kiky
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  Speaker 2: for the intro and let's get right into it and
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  Speaker 2: let's talk girls basketball. Of course, if we're going to
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  Speaker 2: We're going to start out by talking about the Lemon
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  Speaker 2: Nation girls team, who was the nine seed and last
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  Speaker 2: that the last time we talked about them, they beat
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  Speaker 2: Muckleshoot Tribal over at Mount Vernon, which put them to
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  Speaker 2: the Spokane Arena in the round of twelve where they
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  Speaker 2: faced off against Petero's Lumination the nine seed Potero's the
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  Speaker 2: eight seed, and they did face off earlier in the
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  Speaker 2: season in a really close game, and this one was
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  Speaker 2: a close one as well. Poteros did pick up the
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  Speaker 2: win fifty one to forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: A close game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Petero's had a ten to oh run, Lamination
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  Speaker 2: had a fourteen to two run. At one point, Lamentation
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  Speaker 2: was up by eight points. There was twelve lead changes,
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on in this one, but it did
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  Speaker 2: not go the way the Blackhawks. Alina Raebang had sixteen points,
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  Speaker 2: seven rebounds, Jemma James had fifteen points, Cashla Mack had
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  Speaker 2: eleven points. Great thing about that all those players would
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  Speaker 2: be back next year, and I am really excited to
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  Speaker 2: see what Lemon Nation does next year because their core
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  Speaker 2: group is back, all five starters are back. They will
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  Speaker 2: be back, I should say. And it was it was
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  Speaker 2: really fun. This was my first year really diving into
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  Speaker 2: the lemination program for the girls and the boys, and
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  Speaker 2: right off the bat that first game I saw at
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  Speaker 2: Concrete On I was watching it online. It was awesome
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  Speaker 2: to see. I mean, it really opened my eyes to
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  Speaker 2: how talented they were. And it was just so fun
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  Speaker 2: to follow them on their journey this year and get
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  Speaker 2: to know some of those players and watch some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that happened.
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  Speaker 1: Jemma James, who scored her one thousandth the career.
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  Speaker 2: Point, you know, and she's mean she's probably gonna get
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  Speaker 2: two thousand by the way she's going.
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  Speaker 1: She still has three years left, so sorry, two years
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  Speaker 1: left now, my goodness.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean it's just incredible the talent that they have,
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  Speaker 2: and so I'm really excited to watch that fast paced
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  Speaker 2: basketball that they play. So only got to play the
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  Speaker 2: one game over in Spokane, but an amazing season for them.
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  Speaker 2: So congratulations to the lumin Nation girls, the Lady Blackhawks.
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  Speaker 2: It was thank you, thank you so much for your season,
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  Speaker 2: because it was it was so great to cover and
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  Speaker 2: watch and keep the stats and just and see the
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  Speaker 2: smiles on their faces. I mean, nobody smiles on the
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  Speaker 2: court more than you know Brianna Mattiva and Laraya Dennis.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they are smiling. They're having fun, and that's
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  Speaker 2: what high school sports is about. It's it's it's doing
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  Speaker 2: things that you love to do and having fun doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And it really showed on their faces and that was
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  Speaker 2: really great to see. Next, we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the Nuksack Valley girls who went over to Yakamal. That
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  Speaker 2: was the first game of the day for me on
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  Speaker 2: that Wednesday. They hooked up against Nachi's Valley and the
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  Speaker 2: similar thing here nine to eight matchup Nuxack Valley the
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  Speaker 2: nine seed, Nachi's Valley the eight seed. Last we saw
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  Speaker 2: Nuzack Valley, they played over Mount Vernon, beating Hoquim sixty
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  Speaker 2: four to forty two to extend their season. Nachi's Valley
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  Speaker 2: dropped that close game to Lyndon Christian. So the valleys
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  Speaker 2: against each other here and it was really close all
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  Speaker 2: the way through. I mean it was you know, it
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  Speaker 2: was a two o'clock game. Wednesday was my first one
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  Speaker 2: over there, and I was just so jacked up and excited.
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  Speaker 2: And it's so crazy because I'm for this one. I
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  Speaker 2: was standing on the baseline for the whole first half
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  Speaker 2: and taking pictures and I get nervous.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's and I know that I'm not you know, as
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  Speaker 2: a member of the media, I'm not really supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be rooting and stuff like that, but you know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't care. I'm going for Walking County and I and
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  Speaker 2: I there's a vested interest there and I and I
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  Speaker 2: get so excited. I want to see them continue their season.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see the continue to be to play,
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  Speaker 2: and especially for Kate Shintaffer, the lone senior on the team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've gotten to know her pretty well over
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  Speaker 2: the years, and.
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  Speaker 1: And just her pure toughness.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, she will never back down from anything, and
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  Speaker 2: and you.
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  Speaker 1: Know she is.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's reckless abandoned out there,
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  Speaker 2: but she has no worries about you know, injuring herself.
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  Speaker 2: She will go after every loose ball and that's always
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  Speaker 2: a reward in itself.
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  Speaker 1: Just just watching that. It was a close one.
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  Speaker 2: They lost forty one to thirty seven. I think the
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  Speaker 2: second quarter is kind of what got them, just couldn't
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  Speaker 2: hit that many shots when we scored six points in
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  Speaker 2: that quarter. Also it got him great graced Hoague fouling
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  Speaker 2: out in the fourth quarter was still a pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: Amount of time left.
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  Speaker 2: That was That was you know, it's just kind of
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  Speaker 2: one of those oh, you know, you just wish that.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't have happened. And it was a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: Great to Hoke at twelve points, fourteen rebounds at that point,
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  Speaker 2: and so she was she was a force inside. Peyton Bartell,
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  Speaker 2: who the last you know, two three weeks, has really
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  Speaker 2: uped her game and buried a lot of big time shots.
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  Speaker 2: She led with sixteen points. She also had five rebounds,
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  Speaker 2: and and but that was a tough one. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the two times state depending state champions and had been
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  Speaker 2: in the state championship game three years in a row,
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  Speaker 2: knocked off in the in the round of twelve against
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  Speaker 2: Natchi's Valley. Of of course, Maddie Jewett on that team.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you went and if you watched any
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  Speaker 2: of their games, she really stood out. She's the school's
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  Speaker 2: all time leading scorer. And she played all thirty two
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  Speaker 2: minutes at thirteen points and eight rebounds, five of them
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive.
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  Speaker 1: Side, which was that was huge as well.
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  Speaker 2: So but again, congratulations to the Pioneers. Great great season.
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  Speaker 2: It was a season if you look at it from
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  Speaker 2: the very beginning to the very end, the improvement was
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  Speaker 2: was huge, especially with those new varsity players. They all
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  Speaker 2: stepped up at some point in the season and had
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  Speaker 2: that kind of that light moment or that light bulb
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  Speaker 2: moment that went off where they they figured it out
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  Speaker 2: and they were they were a vital varsity player at
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  Speaker 2: that moment, and that was really cool to see, especially
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  Speaker 2: up close, and you could see it in their faces.
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  Speaker 2: You could see them take their criticism and understand it.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, just.
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  Speaker 2: The leadership of the four captains with kat Shintaffer graced Hoague,
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Bartell and Shayey Davis leading those other young ladies,
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  Speaker 2: and it was it was really, it was really great
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  Speaker 2: season for them. So congratulations to the Pioneers. Weren't able
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  Speaker 2: to move on past Wednesday, but still pretty darn amazing season.
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  Speaker 2: So then we're gonna jump over to the Linden Christian
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  Speaker 2: links here went into the tournament as the one seed
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  Speaker 2: and they opened up Yakama by playing against Kashmir and
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  Speaker 2: Kashmir the seventh seed Linnen Christian. They won forty five
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  Speaker 2: to thirty two. But it didn't it seemed a lot.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't seem that close. It seemed like it was
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  Speaker 2: pretty it was over pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 1: They were up by twenty at the half, twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: to nine. They did not.
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  Speaker 2: Allow a point in the second quarter. And that's so
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know how to put It's like, that's
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  Speaker 2: so Linden Christian, like they can just they can just
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  Speaker 2: get on a run like that where everything is going
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  Speaker 2: so smoothly, and boy, they really they really.
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  Speaker 1: It just clicked.
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  Speaker 2: It all clicked in the second quarter and it was
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  Speaker 2: just it was awesome to see Alison Shoemate with fifteen points,
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  Speaker 2: nine rebounds, Tyradikstra hit three of six from downtown score
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  Speaker 2: eleven points, and and they really that really helped them.
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  Speaker 2: Ela Fritz had eight points as well three assists. Watching
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  Speaker 2: Ella Fritz play basketball is she's different. She's just a
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  Speaker 2: different athlete out there. I know, I say it every
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  Speaker 2: single time. I said it with volleyball. But when she
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  Speaker 2: takes a jump shot, like it's a legit jump shot,
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  Speaker 2: you know, she's a foot nap in the ear when
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  Speaker 2: she's releasing the ball. She's she's not releasing it as
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  Speaker 2: she's going up to jump. And you just don't see
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  Speaker 2: that a ton in girls basketball. You start seeing it
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  Speaker 2: at state. But it was just fun to see that
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  Speaker 2: all year from her and and and what a great
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  Speaker 2: overall team effort and to pick up that win which
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  Speaker 2: sent them into Friday. Friday they faced off against Kings
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  Speaker 2: and that was a tough one.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was what a what a great game.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, going into the game, Kleo Anderson
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  Speaker 2: of Kings, who's you know. I read something online that
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  Speaker 2: she's the third ranked player in the state for her class.
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  Speaker 1: For the junior class, and you know, and she I
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  Speaker 1: think she.
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  Speaker 2: Had her struggles a little bit early on, but boy,
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  Speaker 2: she finished strong. I mean she hit that she had
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  Speaker 2: a three three pointer probably about three feet behind the
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  Speaker 2: three point line with no time left, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: won it. They won forty five to forty four on
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  Speaker 2: that three pointer from Klay Anderson and she finished with
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  Speaker 2: twenty points in that game, played all thirty two minutes.
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  Speaker 2: And that was just such a tough one for the
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  Speaker 2: Links because they played so great all year where you're
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  Speaker 2: thinking they're the one seed and you're thinking they have
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  Speaker 2: a really good shot here at bringing home.
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  Speaker 1: The state title, and it just doesn't go that way.
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  Speaker 2: And that's and that's that's the way it goes sometimes
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  Speaker 2: with sports too, is you know, you just you just
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  Speaker 2: never know. Ella Fritz and Allison she May each had
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  Speaker 2: ten points in that game. Fritz had eight rebounds to
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  Speaker 2: lead the team as well. She May had seven rebounds.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Dykshra had nine points on three three pointers and
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  Speaker 2: five rebounds as well. It was just, you know, there
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  Speaker 2: were moments where you thought for sure that would they
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  Speaker 2: would be able to take care of business. But Lindy
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  Speaker 2: Christian was up twenty one to seventeen at the half.
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  Speaker 2: Kings came back and almost doubled them up in the
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  Speaker 2: third quarter, and that was really kind of the moment.
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  Speaker 1: I think.
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  Speaker 2: They went on a fourteen to three run in that
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  Speaker 2: third quarter and that, excuse me, that was really tough
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  Speaker 2: to come back from.
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  Speaker 1: They were able to do it.
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  Speaker 2: They came back, but then Kings got him at the
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  Speaker 2: very end on the game winning shot in the semi finals,
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  Speaker 2: which bumped Lyndon Christian into the consolation round playing for
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  Speaker 2: third place against Annie Wright, who had lost to bell
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  Speaker 2: w Christian, and Lyndon Christian looked.
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  Speaker 1: Really good in that especially in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 2: They did some really good things in the second quarter
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  Speaker 2: and really extended their lead. They win that game fifty
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  Speaker 2: to thirty six over Annie Wright to take third place
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  Speaker 2: in the state. Second year in a row they get
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  Speaker 2: third place. Alison schu made fourteen points in the game.
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  Speaker 2: She ends her career in that game and that's always
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  Speaker 2: tough to Seeanya Dykster had seven rebounds to tie the
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  Speaker 2: team lead, along with Ella Fritz, who had seven. Elk
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  Speaker 2: Fritz also had eleven points and two block shots. Daniel
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  Speaker 2: Dykstra and Alison Schuemate were both named to the All
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  Speaker 2: Tournament one A Girls second Team, So congratulations to both
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  Speaker 2: of them, both seniors ending ending in a really really
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  Speaker 2: strong way, which was awesome to see. Tyradiksterra had was
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  Speaker 2: four of seven from downtown in that game, finished with
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  Speaker 2: twelve points, so really bright future for her and the team.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Links are going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Back next year. That's just the way they are.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you watch their JV team and they're they're dominant,
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  Speaker 2: so it is going to be, you know, probably some
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  Speaker 2: pretty smooth sailing for them going forward, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: nothing to hang your head about at all. Third place
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  Speaker 2: in the state unbelievable. You got a great coaching staff,
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  Speaker 2: the community support is amazing. Third place in the state.
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  Speaker 2: I was so honored to be able to witness it
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  Speaker 2: in person and just played a great, great season.
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  Speaker 1: And the Links, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: They were so close, and I think they could have
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  Speaker 2: given Bellevue Christian a pretty good run there.
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  Speaker 1: Bellevue Christian. Of course, the.
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  Speaker 2: Vikings ended up winning the state title. We go over
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  Speaker 2: to two A now and the Linden girls entering the
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  Speaker 2: tournament as the overall number one seed. They haven't lost
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  Speaker 2: since December of twenty twenty three, so I should have
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  Speaker 2: done the math here, but I think it's hovering around
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  Speaker 2: fifty games or more on a wind streak there. They
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  Speaker 2: start out the tournament by playing against Columbia River and
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  Speaker 2: the one thing you could say about Linen in this one,
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  Speaker 2: where was the outside shooting struggled a little bit, which reminded.
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  Speaker 1: Me a lot of last year.
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  Speaker 2: I think they struggled in that first game as well,
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  Speaker 2: and that could be a weird thing over there. If
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  Speaker 2: you're not used to the backdrop, it's just a different
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  Speaker 2: look when you're trying to shoot. They were one for
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  Speaker 2: twelve from deep in that game, and.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's tough.
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  Speaker 2: But when you play the kind of defense that Lyndon does,
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  Speaker 2: I mean it is you know you can you can
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  Speaker 2: shoot one for twelve every once in a while, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and you'll be fine because they do so well. Plus
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  Speaker 2: defensive rebounding. They got the defensive rebound eighty eight percent
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  Speaker 2: of the time when it was available, and.
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  Speaker 1: That is huge. They also picked up forty.
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  Speaker 2: Eight points in the paint to Columbia Rivers four points
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  Speaker 2: in the paint, so it was a lot of steels
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  Speaker 2: and lands. They had twenty steals in the game, Finley
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  Speaker 2: Partcher had eight of them. She also finished with twenty
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  Speaker 2: two points on ten to fourteen shooting and had five
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  Speaker 2: rebounds as well. Also in the game, Peyton Mills had
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  Speaker 2: fifteen points six rebounds, just a strong overall performance. Keiki
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  Speaker 2: York goes three for three for six points and had
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  Speaker 2: and she had a blocked shot and they went fifty
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  Speaker 2: nine to twenty. I mean it was there was a
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  Speaker 2: twenty four to three run at one point. It was
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  Speaker 2: very very dominant for a Thursday game going into the
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  Speaker 2: semi final. Next game up, they play against Prosser, and
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  Speaker 2: that game, Prosser was the sixth seed. They upset Archbishop Murphy,
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  Speaker 2: who we've seen. They got them by nineteen points, so
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  Speaker 2: you're thinking, Okay, this is gonna be it's gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Be pretty tough. Prosser was scrappy. They're just they just
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the side.
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  Speaker 2: They just didn't have the length, the size really to
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  Speaker 2: compete with with Linden, and Linden.
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  Speaker 1: Again played they just they just played great.
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  Speaker 2: Peyton Mills double double, eighteen points, eleven rebounds. She was
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: also eight of nine from the floor, and that's the
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: thing is when she gets the ball, you know deep
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: inside it's there's it's really hard to defend her. She's
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: just so good at going straight back up using the
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: glass every time U nothing's forced.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: It all looks easy.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: You could tell that she just practices and practices and
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: practices that shot over and over again. Plus she had
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: four offensive rebounds in that game, which allows for those
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: putbacks which she's so good at. Finleypartcher seventeen points, eight
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: rebounds as well. Another great performance from her and DIGITU
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Bowler coming off the bench hitting three threes, scoring eleven points.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: That was huge.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: And she had a game earlier in the season, I
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: want to say it was against Oak Harbor where she
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: had like seventeen points, she had five threes, and you
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: kind of knew that at some point she has that
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: ability she could do it again. She did it in
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: a huge moment here in the semi finals against Prosser.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Linden wins sixty two to forty four. Just a tremendous
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: game for the Lions, putting them back into the state
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: championship game against Ellensburg, just like they were last year.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Both teams undefeated in that game. What a great atmosphere
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I was able to be, you know, seed up close,
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: of course, and that was just fantastic. And even though
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Ellensburg was definitely the most worthy opponent that they played, Linden,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: you know, you still look up and they outscore them
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: every single quarter and you're just thinking, you know, even
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: even when things were not going well against Lyndon, like
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: you're like, you think, in man, Allensburg's playing awesome, and
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: you look up and you go but they're down by ten,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Like how does that? Like That's when you know you're
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: playing against a really, really good team. Is even when
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: it looks like the other team is playing very very
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: well and you look up and you expect them to
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: have the leader to at least be close, and it's
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: still a ten point game. Uh, that's pretty incredible. And
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: that's what it's like watching the Linden girls a lot
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: of the time. And you know, it was a pretty
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: physical game. There was there was you know a lot
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: of tense moments and stuff like that. But I think
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: the refs did a great job of the no calls
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: when they were when they were appropriate.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And and uh.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: You know, kind of letting the girls play a little bit,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: but not to the point where it's going to get
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: out of hand and that's that. That that was that
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: was huge.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Again.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Finley Parkcher led the way another double double, fourteen points,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: ten rebounds.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: She also had five blocked shots.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: She comes away. She is your tournament MVP. Just a
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: just an incredible season for her and tournament. She has
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: now played two years of high school basketball. She has
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: won two state championships. Peyton Mills twelve points, fourteen rebounds,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: just an unbelievable job down low. She is on the
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: All Tournament second team. Shocked she didn't make the first team,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: but I believe she was a tournament MVP last year.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: So I could be wrong on that. It might have
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: been Partcher, but for some reason, I think it was
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Mills and and Yeah. So anyways, it's just that that
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: dynamic duo of coach of course getting it done again.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Keck York, huge game, nine points, three rebounds to assist she,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: you know, and just and the phenomenal defense as well,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: you know, guarding Bella Standish. A lot of the time,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Standish is their standout player. She she missed twelve shots
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: in that game, and a lot of that you can give,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: you know, to Keki York for that. So a huge,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: huge game for her. Lexie Herman new ten points to
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: assist a block shot, had a couple of big time threes.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: I also loved when reyes Nihoff came off the bench
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: and hit a three. I think that was either I
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: think it was right before halftime, which was huge. Jules
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Slayton came off the bench and hit a three, like
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: in the first ten seconds that she was out there.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And you know, I talked to coach Adams about this,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of midway through the season about that's
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the one thing that's been struggling is some of your
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: bench players coming off weren't hitting at the at the
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: hitting the outside shot at the pace that you know
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: that they can hit at. And he was pretty confident
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: that by the time they got to State everything would
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: be fine.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: And look what happens. You get to the state tournament,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you bring him in.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: They hit the shots and it was and he was
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: absolutely right, and it was just so cool to celebrate
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: with those girls and they pick up the win fifty
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: four to thirty seven. Just you know, what, can you
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: say the perfect season? And you know, Melanie Anderson, Kiki
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: York the loan two seniors on the team. I'm so
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: pumped Melanie Anderson came out for basketball this year. She's this,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: you know, softball standout shortstop, great left handed hitter, and
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: when I found out that she was playing basketball this year,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I was super jacked about that, and and I loved
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: what she did when she would come in. She's an
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: undersized forward, you know, playing down low, so athletic, gets
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: her teams going, gets her teammates going. It was I mean,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: it was just I don't know how to explained it.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, I get so invested with these teams and
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: knowing the hard work that it takes, and I pride
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: myself on outworking everybody in the media, and so I
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: really can see it on the floor too, and I
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: know that they are putting in the work in the
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: off season and everything, and so it just it just
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: makes me feel so proud watching them succeed.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And that's what was so cool.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Every player got into the game. Every all the seniors
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: had their moment to be subbed out, you know, and
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: it was just it's just it was just great all around.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: And the one thing was fun too is watching coach Adams,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: you know, for probably eighty percent of the game standing
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: there holding a water like a paper water cup and
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: it just looked so it was like the visual that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: it gave off of his confidence with the team. I
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: don't know if it was planned or what, but you know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: you see that against other coaches who are so demonstrative
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: and sweating and jumping up and down, and it's like,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: there's just something about that Linden Girls team. You know,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: every every single other team in the whole tournament. When
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: it's halftime, they run into the locker room. You have
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: to run by everybody to get there. There's a whole
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: path and everything. Linnen's like, no, we're good, we'll just
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: sit here. And I think the visuals of that can really,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: you know, play with your mind a little bit, and
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: if one girl sees that, or one coach sees that
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: on the other team, then it could spread the word
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: and say, man, they don't even go into the locker room.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: They don't even look at the coach.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: He's just he's just drinking from his cup, you know,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: on one knee and you know, just walking around.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: He's good. Like all that stuff can play a difference.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: And then you look at you know, what they're doing
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: on the court defensively, making their shots. Everything, so unbelievable
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: season for London. Love loved watching them play. I'm excited
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: already for next year and I know they are too.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: So congratulations to the Linden Lions twenty twenty five to
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: a state champions back to back. How sweet it is,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: so cool for them. So let's look at the stat
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: leaders now for the entire season. We're finally done and
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: we can look at the overall stat leaders. Nothing's changed
• 24:37
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• 24:39
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  Speaker 2: And what I loved about them too is they wanted
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• 25:20
  Speaker 2: And that's what's that's you know what I loved about them.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: So points per game again, Finley Parcher finished the season
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: averaging twenty one point one points per game. Congratulations to her.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Rebounds per game. Grayce Dahoague of Nikzac Balley finished at.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Twelve point nine.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: That is a big time number for an entire season,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: you know. And I'm working on going back and all
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: the archives and looking at old Belliam Harolds and talking
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: to coaches and getting stat books everything I can to
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: see what these actual records are, because twelve point nine,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's a record, but I think that
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: that might be a you know, a top ten kind
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: of number in Walking County history.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So and she's just a junior as well.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there's only two seniors on
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: this whole list, and I talked about them a little
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: bit earlier on we'll get to them. A second assist
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: per game, Lexi Robbins held on to that from Squalkum
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: five point one assist per game, steals per game. Brooklyn
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Therabia Ferndale held on five point eight steals per game,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: blocks per game, same as well Aspen Barge from Seahome
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: two point eight blocks per game.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: That's a huge number.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: All these numbers are pretty outstanding, and all those players
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: will be back next year, and a lot of them
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: didn't play.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: The last couple of weeks. They just had to.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Hold on and hopefully those averages didn't jump up for
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: other players that is, and it didn't, so those three
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: players were able to hold on and secure the lead
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: for Walkham County for the season. Field goal percentage on
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the year. Alison Shoemate of Lyndon Christian sixty four point
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: two percent. What that is incredible getting the ball down low,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: she is really good, very much like Peyton Mills.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Peyton Mills, she just kind of goes straight up with
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: it with like a soft touch.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: Alison Schuemate is really good at turning her body and
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: almost like using her body to between the defender and
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the ball and then getting it up so and using
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: the glass as well, and very effective at it obviously.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Sixty four point two percent, three point percentage. Daniel Dykstra
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the other senior from Lindy Christian that I was saying
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: there was two seniors on this list. She hovered around
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: fifty percent for most of the year and she you know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the shooting percentage went down a little bit at the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: state tournament, but still good enough to lead Walkham County
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: at forty two point nine percent. She made forty five
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: out of one hundred and five three point attempts.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: That is incredible.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: And then free throw percentage, Finleypartcher almost got to eighty percent.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: She was there for a while, got knocked down below.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: I think she had a game where she was three
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: for six, very uncharacteristic of her, and that'll knock your
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: percentage way down. And then ever since then she's had
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: some good games and trying to get it back up.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: She got it to seventy nine point eight percent, sent
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: sixty seven of eighty four on the season. So congratulations
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: to all those girls basketball players, many of them that
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: will see next year. And the seniors we will see
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: on Friday at Lyndon High School.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: It's the annual.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: All Star festivities for the senior game, three point Shootout,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Dunk Contest, Girls game, Boys Game. And you're not gonna
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: believe this, ladies and gentlemen, I have been asked to
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: be a coach of one of the girls teams. I
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: can't believe it. I am honored to do it. I
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: can't I know what a give and go is, and
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: a pick and roll. That might be the only plays
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna call. Other than that, I'm gonna let the
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: girls play some basketball. We're gonna have practice on Thursday night.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I don't even know who's on what roster I have yet.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I'm just hoping that they will be excited to play
• 28:53
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• 28:57
  Speaker 2: So we will make it happen, and hopefully, hopefully the
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  Speaker 2: team I'm coaching will come out on top. I'm feeling
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  Speaker 2: And then speaking of boys basketball, let's get right into
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  Speaker 2: it on the two way side with the Linden Lions.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: They were the one seed heading in uh to the
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: yakamav Sun Dome. First game up was against Prosser Prosser
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: who kind of had to, you know, do some damage
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: to get in there. They you know, they they beat
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Ridgefield eighty three to fifty seven as the and then
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: then they were the away team here going against Foster
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday. They beat Foster by twenty two. So they
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: just kind of had this this this, you know, they're
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: like the tournament darlings there for a while. They're you know,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: they're the ten seed. They're going against big bad Linden,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: number one seed, and Linden started out great, score twenty
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: points in the first quarter. They couldn't even score twenty
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: in the second half. I mean it was totally different
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: voting against that other backdrop, and uh, it was a
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: really rough third quarter for them.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Prosser out outscored Lindon nineteen to five. In that game.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Brent, Brent Hepner, he had twenty eight points, eleven rebounds,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: He did his normal you know damage. Uh, Gordy Bedlington
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: had eight points and handful of assists, four rebounds, something
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: like that. Jack Stapleton had six points. Ty Jorgenson had
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: five points. But it was a big upset here, you know,
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: Prosser winning and winning by fourteen.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: And I don't think I don't think a lot of
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: people saw that coming.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: As I was sitting there watching the game, and I
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: heard a lot of people next to me behind me
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: just you know, they just they're like, whoa, look at
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: this and and and that's what Lindon has built. They've
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: built this reputation that when they that when they come in,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: they're the big bad Linden Lions. And sometimes this is
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: gonna happen. And you know, there was some guys next
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to me that were talking. They were like, yeah, they go, well,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: I don't think they've ever played in a tough game
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: this year. I don't think they've had many close games.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: And I this is something I never do, but I
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: actually had to interrupt two strangers, which I just that
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: just you know, makes my skin peel back thinking about it.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: But I had to say, actually, they've played in a
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: lot of close games this year. This has been an
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: interesting year for them because they you know, they only
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: really brought back two varsity players and there's so many
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: young guys on the team, and you know, they beat
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Nukxac Valley by one point.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: You know, they they blame gave them a heck of
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: a run.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Like they had some closer games this year than they
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: were used to, and I had to kind of remind
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: them about that that this is a little different. I
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: think everyone just assumes that it's big bad Linden and
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: they'll just steamroll over everybody. But they do work hard
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: to get to these spots and sometimes it's just not
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: going to work out. And that's what happened here, and
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Prosser got the win and and blessed the Mustangs. They
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: went on and got all the way to the state
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: championship game. They did lose to Bremerton and Bremerton. This was,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of a lot of people saw that
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: one coming, even though they were the three seed. They
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: got a ton of talent and they're going to be
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: around for the next couple of years because they got
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: some unbelievable players that are underclassmen, so so congratulations to them.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: But Linden, they went into this consolation round after that,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: played the next morning at nine am, and that's always interesting,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of see how that's going to go,
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: and just thinking about it makes me want to But
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: because that was an earthly morning for meta, it was
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: a long day for me as well as most of
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: you fans out there that were probably there. But it
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: was very much It was such a similar game to
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: the first one. It was a lot closer, but Linden,
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: you know, they were up fifteen to six after the
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: first quarter, things were looking good, everything was fine. They
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: score fifteen points in the first quarter. They don't even
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: score fifteen in the second half. It was very similar.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: It was going against that same backdrop again and they
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: just couldn't buy a bucket. I mean, I think they
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: had two field goals in the second half. They got
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: to add some free throws, but it just it just
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: you know, it just wasn't in the cards room. They
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: lost forty one to thirty eight, which ended the season.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: There were some moments that, you know, where frustration got
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: the best out of the lines, which you know, turned
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: into technical fouls, which turned into free throw shots, and
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: it's just kind of all that stuff. You know, I
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: did hear, you know, there was some talking from the
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Columbia River players, you know, when they didn't think anyone
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: can hear them, but I could, and I can understand
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: some of the frustration. But Brent Hepner, what another amazing game,
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: twenty five points, thirteen rebounds, finished his career and he was,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: my goodness, he was probably only twenty points away or
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: so maybe something between twenty and twenty five points away
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: from becoming Lyndon's all time leading score. And and what
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I loved about, you know, myself and the well, I
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: shouldn't say what I love about myself, but the media
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: members did the right thing voting for the all tournament team.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Brent Heppner was named first team on that and that
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Linden didn't even pick up a win in the in Yakama,
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: so you know, they understood the talent. They recognized it
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: and he was on that first team All Tournament team
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: for the Two Way Boys that knocked them out of
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the tournament. They lose forty one to thirty eight. That
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: was it for them. They did go on a fifteen
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: to one run in the first half. It was it
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: was it was just it was a hard one, you know,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: and I and Linden fans are just not used to it,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of it was just kind
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: of this is weird.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: What do we do?
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: You know, how does this happen? But again, that's just
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: the way it is. There are other really good teams
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: out there.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: You know, it's just kind of how it happens.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: The Columbia River, you know, went on and took Karen
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Mark Morris pretty well got them by nineteen points. Of course,
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Lynden beat them by twenty in Mount Vernon, so very
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: similar there. Columbia River goes on to pick up fourth place.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Linden does not take home a trophy, and that's the
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: first time and I want to say ten years that
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: that did not happen. So Linden season came to an
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: end at that point. Only three losses on the year,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: two of them coming in Yakama.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: The other one the district championship game.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Against Lakewood, and I'm gonna mention du Lakewood did drop
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: that Wednesday game by four points to those Columbia River Rapids.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: So yeah, pretty pretty interesting and uh but again, another
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: great season for the Linden Lions and an unbelievable record,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: and coach t Roper has a lot to be proud
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: of and he's got you.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Know, it's gonna be an interesting team.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Next year because you're now you're gonna have a lot
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: of experience, more than you had this year.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: But you're gonna have a lot of experience.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: But who's going to be that guy that's gonna, you know,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: be that fifteen to twenty points per game player after
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: you know, Heppner is graduating and Stapleton will be gone
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: as well. Will it be Spencer Adams? Will it be
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Gordy Bedlington? You know, Ty Jorgensen is more than capable
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: of scoring a lot of buckets in the paint. Jade
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: and Leavar could have a breakout season. I mean he's
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: just a freshman. If he grows to be six foot four,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: he could be a handle or he could be a problem.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: You know, that'll be tough to handle and and it'll
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: be really interesting to see kind of what happens Malchi Canaan.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, he keeps making shots. You know, he'll he'll
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: score ten to twelve a game just on threes alone.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: So so it'll be it'll be interesting. I think Linnon
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: will be just fine, and I think they learned a
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: lot this year. The leadership from Brent Hepner was out
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: just outstanding. And you know, I've gotten known, you know,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: over a thousand high school athletes over the years, and
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: you know, there are special ones that I can count
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: on one hand that are that I'll remember the rest
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: of my life.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: And Brent Hepner is one of those kids.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: So he's able to do do great things and whatever
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: he does, and I hope that I'm able to stay
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: in touch with him and.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Because he is unique and a legend in Walkham County.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: So let's jump over to the one A boys. Let's
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: talk Meridian. Meridian.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: They had a long week. They go over there.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: They had to play on Wednesday because they lost Royal
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: at Ellensburg High School the week before. So they go
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: over there as the seventh seed, playing over Lake, the
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: fifteen and They won by thirteen points in this one,
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: but it really wasn't even that close, or didn't seem
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: that close. I mean, they were up by twenty three
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: going into the fourth quarter, and you know, sometimes when
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: you know games in hand, you don't have to do
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: as much in the fourth quarter. You put in a
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: lot of your subs and stuff like that, and the
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Trojans did that. They still win sixty five to fifty two,
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: and Jager twenty five points in that game. James head All,
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: who I thought had just a tremendous tournament, fourteen points
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: for him. Talon Jenkins had nine point seven rebounds, only
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: shot the ball six times. That was pretty incredible and
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: pretty incredible I saw that. I think he only had
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: one shot in the first half. And that's unique because
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: either either they were double teaming him, face guarding him,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: or whatever doing something to take him out of the game,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: which opened up shots for five and he'd all down low.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Or it was hey, things are working this way.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: I don't need to do anything I can say, you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: I can kind of you know, use if we're gonna
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: play all the way to Saturday, I might need to,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: you know, relax, not relax, but you know what I mean, like,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: just not use as much gas in this first game
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: when it looks like.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: We've that they that we've got this, And that's kind
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: of what happened.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: And and Meridian took the win in that first game.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: They go from there into the quarterfinals to play the
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: top seed any Right Gators. And I remember watching any
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: write last year and and.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Uh, there was you know, they were impressive last year.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: They were really good. They got to the state title game.
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: They lost to Zilla, but you could see and I
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: remember looking at the roster going, oh man, they're all
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: coming back and this is gonna be tough. And they
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: their their defense and their offensive rebounding. Those two things
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: just really stuck.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Out to me.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: Plus when you got guys that are, you know, only
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: six or four, but they can like drop step and
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: then just dunk two hands like it's no problem. That
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: can be a problem. That could be a futon for Meridian,
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: And it was. Any Right won that game fifty three
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: to twenty two. It was never really close. You know,
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: the Trojans just had trouble getting the ball inside. They
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: did not and when you're having trouble with that, you
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: better make your outside shots. They were zero for thirteen
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: from Downtown. It was just, you.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Know, to be blunted. It was just kind of a
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: disastrous game.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Nothing went went right for them. You know, I think
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: they made seven field goals the entire game. And That's
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: what I'm talking about, was that incredible defense that any
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: Wright had. It was just relentless. It was just at
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: them over and over and over again. They had sixteen
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: steals in that game. They did such a great job
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: of playing physical defense without fouling. I thought that was
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: really incredible and it dropped Meridian into the consolation round.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: In that round, they took on Seaton Catholic and the
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: next day I was on Friday, and I was really
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: excited for this game because I love watching Seaton Catholic because.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: If you don't know who Caden Wilson is, you know.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: You should because he's a six to six, you know,
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: probably two hundred and thirty five pound man that happens
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: to be a sophomore. And this team, the Seaton Cathoic team,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: is the team that put Meridian out of the tournament
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: last year, so this was going to be a fun
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: kind of rematch. I was really curious to see how
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: this one was going to go and you know, Meridian
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: going into it knowing this could be it. It was
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: a close first quarter. The Children's wrepped by two after
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: the first quarter, but they really turned it on in
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: that in the second quarter and they you know, they
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: went up thirty six to twenty three in that second
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: quarter or at the half, and that that that was huge.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Cadan Wilson got into a little foul trouble, which seems
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: to happen almost every single game that I've seen.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Excuse me, a little water there, and and what was
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: what was so unique about it was that he would
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: stay in.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: The game and just keep playing and see if he
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: could keep stretching that because a lot of times they
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: wouldn't need him in the game. I remember the night
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: before they were down by by double digits and.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: And they just they needed him to you know.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Or it might have been two games before I was
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: against Kashmir maybe and they were you know, they were
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: they were down and he was able to come back
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: and they almost beat Zilla. I mean, it was it
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: was impressive, but Meridian really took it to them, continued
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: it in the second half. They won by twenty sixty
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: eight to forty eight, and I remember Jager Fife in
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: that game. He had a kind of a nasty ankle
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: injury early in the second quarter, and it did not
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: look good. He's coming, he's hobbing off the court. They
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: were wrapping it, taping it, doing all sorts of things.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: He comes back before halftime and limps onto the court,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: but he's playing. But when he came out in the
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: third quarter, he didn't look like he was in that
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: that much pain. He was moving pretty well and he
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: played really well and they won. And I was really
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: worried about him Saturday for Saturday's game because now you're
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: playing for fourth place in the state and he's a senior,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: and you know, how is he going to respond? How's
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: that ankle doing? You know, I was I was curious.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: I was almost gonna, you know, text his mom and say, hey,
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: is he doing okay? And that was gonna be an
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: early I was a nine to thirty games Saturday morning
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: for fourth place against she Lan, and boy, he looked
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: great right off that bat. I mean they were up
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: ten points after the first quarter, Meridian was and they
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: just kept it on. Jager five goes for thirty points
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: in that game. He had four steals, five rebounds, three assists.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: What a way to end such a great career at
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Meridian High School thirty points tallon Jenkins right behind him
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: with nineteen points, seven of eight from the foul line,
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: eight rebounds.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Two steals. I mean, it was those two guys.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: It was incredible, and they played the way senior superstars
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: play when they know it's their last game. And with
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: the win, they get fourth place in state. That's the
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: second best finish.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: In school history.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Fifteen years ago they were they got second place, so
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: that's their best ever.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: This is their second best ever.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: It's also I think the third time in school history
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: that they picked up twenty wins in a season. So
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: congratulations to coach Stacey and that whole program.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: So much fun to watch them throughout the year.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: They go down to Yakama and they go three and
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: one in four days in a row. And you know,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: I saw a picture of Jagger's ankle, you know, during
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: from Saturday's game, or you know, from the injury from Friday,
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: but playing in Saturday's game, and you wouldn't believe it.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: You know, it was a Kurt Shilling esque type performance
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: to be that banged up and still drop thirty points
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: he was He had six from downtown, but you know
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of you know, he had some great you know,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: fake passes, layups.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: All sorts of things.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to him, and I got the great news that
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: he will be playing baseball again this year, so that
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: is fantastic. So get to watch him for another season.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Talon Jenkins, my man, what an awesome career honor to
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: watch you play. James head all, dude, you were amazing.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: Got seven rebounds in that game. He did foul out
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: at the end, but his growth as a player from
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: last year to this year is just amazing as an offensive,
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: rebounding juggernaut.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Loved watching him play.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: And the future looks pretty bright, you know, Pierce Brazowski's
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: and Trey Alexander's, these guys like to get after. They're
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: gonna be a much shorter team in the future, but
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a team that's gonna be maybe a
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: lot like Lakewood was, and I think that might be
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: the way they're going to coach them up. Also pretty
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: I want to give a huge shout out to to
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: Kenyon James, a kid that his story is pretty amazing.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Getting cut from the CEA team as a freshman to
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: be a starter on the team that gets forth in
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: the state. And his relentlessness, He's never tired. His defensive
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: awareness was out of this world. And I just I
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: love players like that. Brock Hogan, dude, you're my man.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: I just so proud of that kid and how well
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: he played as well. It's just a fun senior class.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: I hate saying goodbye to them, but unbelievable. Unbelievable season
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: finished with twenty wins fifty nine to forty eight win
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: over Schalane to get fourth place in the state, and
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Jager fIF Talon Jenkins both were named to the All
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Tournament second team, So congratulations to both of them.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Well deserved.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: We're going to stay in the one A boys here
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: and jump to Lyndon Christian the three seed. They didn't
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: have to play until Thursday because of their win over
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Seaton Catholic at Mount Vernon High School the week before,
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: so they start out against Kings, which I believe that
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: was the same last year. It seems like this matchup
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: always happens. Back in my day, it always happened at
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: the district tournament. But here we are in the state
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: tournament and it was you know, relatively. They took our business.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: Lyndon Christian won sixty nine.
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: To forty four.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: They were a big after one quarter, twenty one to five.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: And that's kind of what we've been used to with
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: Lyndon Christian during the regular season, is they can just
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: kind of demoralize you early and then keep that gas
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: pedal down. And that's what happened here. Gunnerdikstra coming back.
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: You know, he missed a bunch of time and he
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: came back for that game against Seaton ca Athlic but
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: his shot was a little off. I want to say
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: he was like zero for five from from downtown. But
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: it was nice to get him those shots in that
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: game because in this one he was on six for
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: seven from downtown. Led them with eighteen points. Caden Veldman
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: double double machine thirteen points, ten rebounds.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Also had four block shots.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Gannon dykstro with ten points as well, so and Boyce
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: robertson eight points in that game. Luke van Cote and
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Dawson Heinz each had nine, so it was really spread
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: out there. And Lenny Christian takes to win sixty nine
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: to forty four against a young Kings team, which I
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: don't believe even has a senior on the team. So
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: really excited to see how they're going to be the
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: next few years.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Kings.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: The King's Knights always you know, traditionally great, great basketball
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: team with a lot.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: Of really good shooters. I could still.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: See Brian Remington hitting straight away three is like when
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: I close my eyes into Mount Vernon Gym and that's
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: you know, that's just one of those things and you
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: know there might be only like two or three listeners
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: that'll be like, holy cow, I remember that.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: I remember that guy. It's going back to.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: The nineties there. But a great job by by the
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Links there winning that game. Moving on to the semi
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: finals where they played against Royal and Royle was seated
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: ahead of them. Royal was seated second, Lyndon Christian third,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: and this was this was a really fun game to
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: just kind of be a part of and see it
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: up close and witness it because it was it was
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of back and forth.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I mean it was you know, it was really close.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: In the first quarter.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: You know, Royle was up by one Linnon Christian kind
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: of went off in the second.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: They were up by ten at half, and then Royle
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: was up by.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Like thirteen or I mean, they were up pretty big
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: after the third quarter, so it was just kind of
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: back and forth and back and forth. And you know
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: when you watch Royal and you see the Ezra Jenks
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: and Lance Allred and and you know, you see the
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: names all Read and Janks and you're like, oh, I
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: know these guys from football, and but you know, luckily
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: they're playing basketball in this one, and Austin Heinz did
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: a little bit more of the play basketball.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: In this one.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: It was kind of his coming out party, just a
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: sophomore thirty three points and it had everybody talking. I know,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: a lot of the media members were coming up to
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: me from other areas asking me about him and who
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: is this guy?
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: And we know the Heinz name, and you know, I
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: just said, hey, he is.
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: He is an incredible athlete, can jump out of the gym.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: He's a hard worker, he is fantastic, and he had
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: just one of those crazy games, like I said, thirty
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: three points, thirteen of nineteen shooting, nine rebounds, three steals,
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: and a blocked shot where I thought he was going
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: to hit his head on the rim and just incredible,
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Just one of those performances like I said that you
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: just do not see very often and it was when
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: it was needed the most. Gannon Dykeshaw also pumped in
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: fourteen points, had six rebounds in that one. Caden Veldman
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: pulled down eleven rebounds and blocked three more shots. Huge
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: game for the Links. There they pull out the win
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: fifty six to forty nine over the Royal Knights, which
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: sent them into the state championship game, which was just.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: A huge, huge moment.
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: And that, like I said, I mean, the Dawson Heintz
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: effect in that one was incredible, so incredible that he
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: was named to the All Tournament first team. And you know,
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: he's a player that I would not have guessed would
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: have been named to that, but that performance alone opened
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: the eyes of a lot of media members at that table,
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it was. It was one of those games
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: to remember, that's for sure. They go to the state
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: championship game to play against Anny Wright, who I mean,
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: you know, they were just a bus saw. I mean,
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: they were not going to be denied this this time.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: It was an incredible game for them. Anny Wright wins
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: it fifty nine to forty six. Lynnon Christian played their hearts.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Out, but I just you know, it was just so hard.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: They had to work so hard to get every single
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: thing that they had, you know, they had they had
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: to really fight for offensive rebounds every once in a
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: while or a steal or something that would just you know,
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: do what they could do. And still, I mean, it
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: was just weird seeing Linnon Christian not put up as
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: many points as were used to seeing them put up.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: That was the strange thing. I mean, they're averaging, you know,
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know, close to eighty a game, and they
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: put up forty six. And it was not because they
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: had an off night. It was any rights defense was
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: just phenomenal, and that was kind of what a lot
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: of people were expecting. I mean, the Gators were for real.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: They came as advertised and that was what did it.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Gannon Dyster scored ten points in his final game. Luke
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Van cooteen seven in his final game. Carter Ayler's his
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: final game, started the game at a guard. Gunnar Dykster
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: came out the bench scored nine, Dawson Heinz had six,
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: Caydenveldman had seven points, seven rebounds, and I mean everything
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: that they all did was just it was such hard work, just.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: To have those things happen.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: And that's that's kind of what Christian usually does to
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: other teams, Like if you score on them, it's like
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: such hard work. And it was a tough one. I
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: mean they lost the state championship game, but second place
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: in state that is that is pretty pretty amazing. The
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: links you know coming into the year too, Like I
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: even even I said on the podcast, like they'll be good,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: but I don't know how good they can be because
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: they were going to be such a different team than
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: last year. Last year it was a lot of it
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: was based on size with the two big, you know,
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: football players in the middle, and and it was gonna
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: be a little different team this year.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: As Caden Veldman did some great things as a freshman,
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: I was expecting big things this year.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: He delivered. You know. It's kind of same thing with Heinz.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: You know, did some had some flashes of brilliance as
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: a freshman, did some good things this year once he
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: came back from the collarbone injury. Gunner Dykester really I'm
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: sorry Gannon. Dykester really upped his game from junior year
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: to senior year. I think as a junior he averaged
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: I don't know, fifteen sixteen a game. Now, he was
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: you know, up in the mid twenties for a lot
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: of this season. And so the guys that needed up
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: their game they did. The guys that were going to
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: come in and be a part of this team, uh
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: with with more with more important.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: Minutes, they did extremely well, you know.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Also, so that's what it took, and they did an
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: amazing job and it didn't work out at the very end,
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: but that sometimes that's just that's just what happens. And
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: so you know, that's what that's what we got. Second
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: place finish. They lose fifty nine to forty six against
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Anny Wright. Unbelievable season for the Links. And now we
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: will jump into the one be boys and that is
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: lumin Nation, who was the two seed coming into the tournament.
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: They opened up at the Spokane Arena against Acosta and
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: it wasn't even close. I mean it was early, you know,
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: they were well, I mean they was kind of early.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: It was thirty to seventeen. They were up at halftime,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: but they outscored them thirty seven to ten the second half.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: There was actually a mercy clock going on for the
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: last minute and a half or so, which you just
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: don't see at the state tournament at all. They went
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: sixty seven to twenty seven and Jerome Toby twenty five
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: points in that game, five steals, three assists, four rebounds.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: It was all Limination in that one. You know, fourteen steals,
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: they turned them over twenty three times. Limination only turned
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: the ball over seven times. And that's just kind of
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: what they do, kind of how they play. They play fast,
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: they hit threes. They hit seven threes in that game.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: You know, that's that's kind of the normal box score
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: for twenty three turnovers and hit seven threes. You get
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: that combination and it's gonna be a pretty good night
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: for the Blackhawks.
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: And it wasn't that one.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: Like I said, it was pretty pretty dominant, no question
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: about that. They go to the semi finals, Playna Bay
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: and they played in the Bay in that tried district
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: championship game and got the wins. That this was going
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: to be, you know, a rematch and see how it
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: goes as the winner goes to the state championship game.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: And this one was extremely close. I remember Nia Bay
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: was up big after the first quarter at ten to three.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Leimonation retook the lead nineteen to eighteen, slim ly just
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: before the half. It was tied going into the fourth
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: and Leimonation pulled out the four point win forty nine
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: to forty five. Dyson Edwards was the big hero here,
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: hitting five shots from downtown, had six rebounds, finished with
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: seventeen points, blocked a couple of shots. That's what I
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: love about Dyson Edwards game is he is a guard.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: I mean he plays like a guard, but he's jumping
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: ball at center court. He's got incredible hops, such a
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: great athlete and I think that and he's just a sophomore,
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: so I'm really excited to see his growth and how
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: he plays. Carson Reeve, the senior, came off the bench
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: to score ten points. He also had five rebounds. And
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: love what he does when he comes into the game
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: because he supplies so much defense, hustle, excitement, and that's
• 57:55
  Speaker 2: always fun to see. Jero Toby had a rough game
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: in that one scored five points, but he did some
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: other things. You know, he got others in ball that
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: six rebounds, four assists, a couple of steals, played all
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: thirty two minutes and uh and that was what was
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: most important. They you know, they got the win, they
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: got to the state championship game where they're gonna face
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Almaira Cooley heart Line, who was the one seed going in.
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: They only had one.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Loss all year, and this one was incredibly close all
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: the way through. You know, I wouldn't be able to
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: go into you know, great detail because I don't have
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: the time probably for this the last two and a
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: half minutes of the game, but it was a lot
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: of little things that happened.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Basically, uh, you know.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: The Warriors had a three point lead with less than
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: three minutes to go. Landon la Fontaine takes a charge
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: that was huge because not only did he give possession
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: back to Lummy Nation, it also took a bucket off
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: the off the you know scoreboard that would have counted
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: if it wasn't a charge. And they go down and score,
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: and you know, and and to make you know, to
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: make it a two point game, I'm Almira Cooley Heartline
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: were able to hit two free throws to regain the
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: lead by by by three. But there was some there
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: was some great There was an offensive put back by
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: DeAndre James in that game. Jerome Toby kind of grabbed
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: a loose ball and put it in. Late in the game,
• 59:23
  Speaker 2: there was a great play that Carson Reevey had where
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: he he dribbled through the zone, up faked a guy jump,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: he bounced past it to James who laid it in
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: to get the give Lamination a one point lead with
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: like thirty seven seconds to go. That was huge because
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: now they finally have the lead. There's less than a
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: minute to go. The Warriors bring the ball down the court.
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: They you know, they they do some stuff. It's kind
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: of tricky. It's not looking great. They call time out.
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: They have the ball with fourteen seconds left. They get
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: all set up. The Lamination calls a time out. They
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: want to talk about it, and it was just a
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: lot of mind games going back and forth. And you know,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: the Warriors can draw up a play here to win
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: them a state championship game. They have you know, they
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: have the time. You know, the they have fourteen seconds,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: they're down by one. Draw up play and my goodness,
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: the second pass, you know, or the first pass after
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: the inbound was intercepted by Jerome Toby. He drives down
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: the court, he's fouled and with like eight seconds to go,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: nine seconds to go or something like that, and it was.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: You know, the crowd went crazy. He's got a big
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: smile on his face, but they were so far from
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: being in the bonus. They had to inbound it to
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: him multiple times and keep getting he kept getting fouled,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: and it just kind of kept knocking a second or
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: two off the clock every time. By the time he
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: was at the free throw line, there's only five seconds
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: left and he's got all the confidence in the world.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: They're up by one. He drains them.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: Both and and then now there's five seconds left and
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: Almyri Cooley Harline has to drive the length of the court.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: They do it.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: They tried to, you know, shoot a three, and while
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: trying to get fouled doing it. There's no call that
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: ball goes out of bounds. It's a good note call.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: And that was it. I mean, and Lemon Nation wins
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: the state championships.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: And I tell you what there was. There were there.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: Were times like in January when the rp I would
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: come out and they weren't even in the top ten,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: and I was like, who's doing this? Like I don't
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: I don't understand why they're not as highly ranked.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: I just don't get it. I said it in December.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: I think I said it after I saw one game
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: of theirs, I said, they're winning the state championship. I
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: just I couldn't see how a one B team could
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: be better than them. They're just so well rounded, and
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: I I, you know, and I'm so I'm I'm happy.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: I'm really glad that it happened. But it made me
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: feel so good. And I'm so proud of coach Toby.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: And I've known him a long time and just how
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: how his team played and and I loved his positivity
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: and and it's about playing for your community and having
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: fun and and working hard.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: But still getting the job done.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: And his son Jrome Toby Junior twenty three points in
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: that game, five steals, including that huge fifth one at
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: the end, which was which was just fantastic. You know,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: DeAndre James, huge game, ten points, eight rebounds, doing a
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: lot of damage in the second half. Kind of had
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: a rough first half, but really really good second half.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: Carson Reevey, you know, Travon Lee, Tony Abrams, Rayshawan, Bob
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: Andrew Tangent, all those all those seniors.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: You have to say goodbye to them, but you go
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: out as a state champion. That's amazing.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: They got some big time key players coming back next year,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: you know, with Toby Lafontaine Edwards, DeAndre James.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, those guys. Those guys are legit.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: So it'll be interesting to see how they field the
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: rest of the team, you know, Gregory Hawk, Will Tracy
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: Powell be able to come back. It's it's gonna be
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be awesome. And so happy for the Limination
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: Blackhawks to win their state championship first time in ten years.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: And I I mean, I you know, I didn't. I
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: didn't cover.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: Them last year and I knew I had to that
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: this year, and I you know, I went out to
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: practice and took headshots and talked to coach and I
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: just said, you know, I'm I'm all in, Like you know,
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: just tell me where you're gonna be and I'll be
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: there and I'll keep the stats and I'll do everything
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: I can. And boy, I lucked out. I picked a
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: great year to go and check it out. So congratulations
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: to them. We're gonna look at now the stat leaders
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: for the entire season now and of course sponsored by
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: Acceleration Driving School in London. Give them a call at
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: three six zero seven four six four five six seven,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: And when you look at the stat leaders, it's again
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: it's it's it's a lot of the same names. And
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: almost all these players played over this past week at
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: the state tournament, so uh, they had they had the
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: ability to move up in this list, and and they
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: all kind of held onto their lead points per game
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: leader for the season, getting Dykster held on. He's fended
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: off Brent Heppner by just a little bit. Dykster finishes
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: at twenty two point nine points per game on the season.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: Rebounds per game. Caden Veldman, the sophomore from Lindon Christian
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: nine point seven rebounds per game, Assists per game and
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: steals per game both were Jerome Toby from Elimination five
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: point nine assists per game on the season and four
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: point one steals per game, none of them more important
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: than the final one of the season that he had
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: at the end of the game to get the victory.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: And that's why when I wrote the story, I said,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: you know, elimination steals state championship, and some people took
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: it the wrong way. I said, no, because they won
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: it on a steal. Like read the story, you know,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: don't don't don't take it there. Don't don't give me
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: a hard time. Re read the story. I was trying
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: to be creative. Blocks per game Caden Veldman two point
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: three blocks per game. He also led in field.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: Goal percentage sixty eight point one percent. That is getting
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: the job done down low, one hundred and thirty of
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety one. So the big sophomore from
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: the Links led in three pretty much the three big
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: man categories. Three point percentage. Luke van Coten from Lindy
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: Christian fifty seven out of one hundred and thirty five.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: That's forty two point two percent. Such an I mean,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: he has one of those shots that you know, it's
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: so effortless. And I was sitting next to Nick Zeller
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Singh from the Cascadia Daily News and he's just like
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: he looks at me, he goes every time he shoots it,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: I think it's going in like he is. He is
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: the epitome of a stretch four, you know. And I
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: was like, I know, he's he's unbelievable. And Lindy Christian
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: always seems to have those guys and it's so fun
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: to watch. And the free throw percentage Jonah Brolowski, Ferndale.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: He held on eighty five point two percent, which when
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: you have a guy that's sixty five sixty six that
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: can knock down free throws, huge huge. I really hope
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: he's playing at the next level. And Jonah, if you're
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: listening to this, let me know, because I'm really curious.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: I want to follow your career and see how you do.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Uh. You're such a fun player to watch, so hopefully
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: you get to keep playing.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're gonna end this by going with the Players
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  Speaker 2: of the Week. Of course, Players of the Week sponsored
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  Speaker 2: by Anytime Fitness. You can visit any of their three
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  Speaker 2: locations and Ferndale, Linden and Linden North, so you got
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  Speaker 2: three of them here in the northern part of the county,
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  Speaker 2: kind of north and north and to the east side
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  Speaker 2: as well a little bit with the Linden Ones and
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  Speaker 2: Anytime Fitness. I mean, my goodness, what haven't I said?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they they go all in with walking Preps,
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  Speaker 2: which is which is just huge.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't be.
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  Speaker 2: Happier and I'm really glad that they've latched on and
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  Speaker 2: and wanted to be a part of Walking Preps.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's huge.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and they you know, they sponsored the top
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  Speaker 2: one hundred list for football the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big one, Like.
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  Speaker 2: That's the one that's gonna get a lot of eyeballs
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  Speaker 2: and it lasts for over a month and and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm really really happy that they've been able to do that.
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  Speaker 2: But now they're sponsoring again the players of the week
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  Speaker 2: for girls and boys basketball. For girls basketball, got to
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  Speaker 2: give it to Finley Parcher of Linden, the sophomore guard.
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  Speaker 2: She is the tournament MVP for Class two A on
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  Speaker 2: the girls side, So congratulations to Finley Parcher. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how many times she's won this award this year,
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  Speaker 2: but it's been a lot. And then on the boys side,
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  Speaker 2: it's Jerome Toby of Linden or I'm sorry, of Lommi Nation,
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  Speaker 2: the junior. He was also the tournament MVP for one B.
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  Speaker 2: So the two tournament MVPs from Walkham County are your
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  Speaker 2: Anytime Fitness Girls and boys basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Players of the Week.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just want to end this by saying thank
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  Speaker 2: you to everybody for you know, allowing me into your
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  Speaker 2: gyms and and uh covering you know, your favorite players
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  Speaker 2: and your favorite teams, and it's it's it's been a
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  Speaker 2: wild ride winter season. Is it's a frenetic pace. It's
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on. It is it's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: watching film and calculating stats. And you know, there's no
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  Speaker 2: busier week than State Week, especially when we have so
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  Speaker 2: many teams competing and then playing all the way through Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: and and uh, I just want to, you know, thank
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  Speaker 2: everybody for allowing me to follow my passion and doing
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  Speaker 2: and do what I do and and you know, hopefully
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  Speaker 2: I'll be able to make it out next year at
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  Speaker 2: Stayed as well, and we'll be able to keep this
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  Speaker 2: thing going with all these great players that we have
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  Speaker 2: coming back. So again I want to thank Anytime Fitness Acceleration,
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  Speaker 2: Driving School in Linden, Most Serri Construction Advance Custom Cards,
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  Speaker 2: Edeline Dry, thank you all so much to all you
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  Speaker 2: and Takiki York for giving the intro. And I'm Tyler
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  Speaker 2: Anderson of Welcome Preps and we'll talk to you soon.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Baseball and Fast Pitch reviews will be
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  Speaker 2: the next episode, So until.
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  Speaker 1: Then, see you later. Everybody,